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Governing the injecting drug user
History of the Human Sciences, 2012This article offers a critical contribution to the debate on a problematic ‘type’ of injecting drug use referred to as needle fixation. At the heart of this debate, is a questioning of the existence, prevalence and usefulness of the needle fixation concept for academics and drug treatment practitioners working with injecting drug users. The aim of this
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Temazepam misuse in a group of injecting drug users
British Journal of Addiction, 1992AbstractIt is well recognized that many injecting drug users are poly‐drug users. The intravenous use of Temazepam has become popular recently. In response to the ease of misuse, the pharmaceutical industry produced a formulation that would be as ‘resistant’ as possible to injecting.
S M, Ruben, C L, Morrison
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Bone and joint infections in injection drug users
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2002Skeletal infections in injection drug users have an insidious onset, present with indolent symptoms, and often occur in unusual locations. Unless physicians are familiar with the disease entities unique to the injection drug user, the diagnosis is frequently delayed. Systemic signs of infection are often lacking.
Vivek, Kak, Pranatharthi H, Chandrasekar
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Injection drug users: hospital care and charges
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2001Injection drug users have high rates of hospital use, however, the specific contribution of injection-related infections to hospitalization has never been determined. After reviewing 92 consecutive admissions of HIV-negative injection drug users to Rhode Island Hospital in 1998, we found that 49% were related to infections and an additional 24% were ...
M D, Stein, M, Sobota
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HIV surveillance among injecting drug users
AIDS, 2001Injecting drug users (IDUs) should be considered a 'partially hidden population' at high risk for HIV infection. In almost all locations it should be possible to locate and conduct research with IDUs, but it will probably never be possible to enumerate or draw random samples from an IDU population. Surveillance research studies with IDUs should include
D C, Des Jarlais, K, Dehne, J, Casabona
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HIV surveillance and injecting drug users in Greece
The Lancet, 2014Evangelos Alexopoulos (Sept 28, p 1095) questioned the validity of HIV surveillance data in an outbreak of HIV in injecting drug users (IDUs) in Athens, Greece. This outbreak, fi rst reported in 2011, has continued in 2013 with nearly 1000 new HIV cases reported during this period in IDUs.
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Risk and Reciprocity: HIV and the Injection Drug User
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1992Injecting practices of illicit drug users in San Antonio, Texas, were studied by means of informal field interviews and participant observation. The methods injection drug users (IDUs) employed to obtain drugs seemed to affect their HIV risk behaviors.
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Injecting drug users: A stigmatised and stigmatising population
International Journal of Drug Policy, 2009This paper considers the way that social stigma impacts both on injecting drug user (IDU) populations and operates within them and the consequences this has for prevention and harm reduction amongst IDUs.The research from which this paper is drawn was a city case study, itself part of a larger national study to evaluate the efficacy of needle exchanges
Lesley, Simmonds, Ross, Coomber
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Endocarditis in injection drug users.
American family physician, 1996Injection drug use is an important risk factor for endocarditis. The clinical manifestations of endocarditis associated with injection drug use differ from those in person who do not use drugs. Endocarditis in drug users more often affects the right side of the heart and presents with fever and pulmonary emboli rather than left-sided emboli.
D E, DeWitt, D S, Paauw
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HIV-1 infection in injection drug users
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2002Injection drug use is an efficient and ongoing means of HIV transmission and is the principal mode of transmission in some parts of the world. In the United States, approximately 10,000 injection drug users are believed to acquire HIV each year. The US Public Health Service hopes to decrease all HIV transmission in the United States by 50% in the next ...
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